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This article expands on a hospital diary I began after my second coronary bypass surgery in 1987. My wife, son, and daughter were close at …
Read moreTwo Treks Through the Same Trauma, With and Without Social Support
Tom Green, Ph.D. Myth #1: Your research project has to be brilliant, truly impress the committee and be published in a prestigious research journal. Truth …
Health research is commonly based on a priori knowledge about particular conditions or diseases, and the factors or measures that predict the presence of these …
Read moreData Collection Methodologies for Health Research Projects
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has carried out multiple national studies with measures on a variety of health aspects, and includes data on …
How to Know Which Statistical Test to Use The most important step in choosing the appropriate statistical test is to know what the variables of …
Read moreA Quick Guide for Choosing the Appropriate Statistical Test
Suffixation: A suffix is a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing,-it is (My computer, July 16, 2016). Suffixation can …
Mean, Median, and Mode Sometimes you get very similar results with all three. Like when you have a normal distribution. Mean Usually, the mean is …
Pie Chart Barchart Histogram Histogram with Normal Curve Frequency Polygon Shapes of Distributions Frequency distributions: represent the number of scores that occur at certain values …
Definitions Statistics: A Branch of mathematics that involves techniques for dealing with sets of numbers Summarizing them Describing them Figuring out what they mean 2 …